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Victorian Tiling at Embankment
At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator
leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the escalator; why? |
Victorian Tiling at Embankment
On Feb 15, 11:07 pm, lonelytraveller
wrote: At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the escalator; why? I am going to go and have a look at it right now. |
Victorian Tiling at Embankment
"lonelytraveller" wrote in message ... At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the escalator; why? Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations, undernath all of the modern **** that stuck on top tim |
Victorian Tiling at Embankment
On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)"
wrote: "lonelytraveller" wrote in ... At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the escalator; why? Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations, undernath all of the modern **** that stuck on top tim But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful. |
Victorian Tiling at Embankment
On Feb 16, 12:30*pm, lonelytraveller
wrote: On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)" wrote: "lonelytraveller" wrote in ... At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the escalator; why? Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations, undernath all of the modern **** that stuck on top tim But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful. I'm not quite picturing all this. There would be nothing at Bakerloo/ Northern level till about 1906 or so would there? Do you mean that there was a deep passageway predating those lines? |
Victorian Tiling at Embankment
On 16 Feb, 12:30, lonelytraveller
wrote: But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful. Don't forget that most deep stations had lifts in the beginning. Staircases were converted to escalator machine chambers also. |
Victorian Tiling at Embankment
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Victorian Tiling at Embankment
On 16 Feb, 15:47, MIG wrote:
On Feb 16, 12:30 pm, lonelytraveller wrote: On 16 Feb, 12:23, "tim \(not at home\)" wrote: "lonelytraveller" wrote in ... At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the escalator; why? Surely there's Victorian tiling in all (most) underground stations, undernath all of the modern **** that stuck on top tim But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful. I'm not quite picturing all this. There would be nothing at Bakerloo/ Northern level till about 1906 or so would there? Do you mean that there was a deep passageway predating those lines? No. It would have appeared with the Northern line there. From a distance it looks like the tiling is similar to the bakerloo line station at Edgeware road - those decorative green tiles about mid way up the walls - it would look glorious if it was cleaned up and on show. But it definitely looks older than the escalator. Anyway, I'm fairly certain the escalator isn't original, on account of the very awkward access to the clearly old spiral staircase adjacent to it at the top landing. |
Victorian Tiling at Embankment
"Colin Rosenstiel" wrote in message .co.uk... In article , (lonelytraveller) wrote: At embankment station, there's a room behind/under the down escalator leading to the northbound northern line platform .There's victorian tiling on the right hand wall as you look in from the foot of the escalator; why? Given that the Northern Line opened in 1907, I doubt it's actually Victorian. Edwardian I might believe. Built using a stockpile of Victorian tiles? Perhaps they bought a job lot cheap after Victoria's death... But seriously, how quickly do architectural styles/materials change? Paul S |
Victorian Tiling at Embankment
On 17 Feb, 16:32, " wrote:
On 16 Feb, 12:30, lonelytraveller wrote: But the Victorians didn't have escalators, so why would there have been a passageway in that particular location? Its parallel and next to the passage between the bakerloo line and the northbound northern line platforms, so it doesn't seem to be purposeful. Don't forget that most deep stations had lifts in the beginning. Staircases were converted to escalator machine chambers also. A lift is possible, but where would it have gone? The passage is directly beneath the westbound platform of the circle/district, and a lift shaft there would have to have cut through the platforms, making them rather awkward. Now there clearly used to be a lift of some sort on the northern side, as the escalator on the northern side from the under-circle-line passages to the ticket hall passes through a space that is clearly circular, and cut-through lift-shaft like. But I can't fathom where the lift could have gone to, since there doesn't appear to be any passage on the northern side of the northern-bakerloo link. Its more like it goes somewhere that could then go to a lift perhaps. Perhaps it linked up with the other side of the spiral staircase? That spiral staircase is a bit of a curiosity really - why is it situated so far to the south of the passage linking bakerloo to northern line, but only go high enough to emerge beneath the circle line platforms; if it was intended to only go that high, it would have been better to put it next to the linking passage, if it was set so far south for the purpose of reaching the surface, why doesn't it. |
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